Linux clusters: High-performance computing

This SearchEnterpriseLinux.com guide explores the many uses of Linux clusters in the enterprise. Find out why Linux clusters can be your company's best bet for handling storage, applications, high-volume transactions and more.

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Linux clusters are not a one-trick pony, so don't dismiss them as scientific lab tools only. This SearchEnterpriseLinux.com guide explores the many uses of Linux clusters in the enterprise. Find out why Linux clusters can be your company's best bet for handling storage, applications, high-volume transactions and more. Take a spin though these articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers and expert Q&As. Drop me us an e-mail to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.

Linux Clusters Institute The LCI site provides links to education and advanced technical training for the deployment and use of Linux-based computing clusters to the high-performance computing community worldwide.

SGI Partners to Launch 'Bright' Linux Clusters (IT Jungle) Clusters that behave like, are preconfigured like, and sold like monolithic systems are called "bright clusters," and supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics is partnering to target this fast-growing market with its Linux-based Altix machines.

Article: Dell inks HPC cluster deal with Cray This story describes how Dell plans to bolster its HPC Linux cluster business by partnering with Cray Inc., the Seattle-based supercomputer company.

Beowulf

Beowulf.org Project page for the open source project. Beowulf.org is a collection of resources for the expanding universe of users and designers of Beowulf class cluster computers. These enterprise systems are built on commodity hardware deploying Linux OS and open source software.

Article: Dell joins UT's $38M supercomputer project (Austin Business Journal) About 300 Dell servers are being used in a computing cluster that gives scientists and engineers at University of Texas at Austin the power of more than 3 trillion computer operations per second.

Q&A: Cray CTO: Supercomputers outshine Linux clusters in HPC, Part 1 (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) Linux clusters can not offer the same price-performance as supercomputers, according to Paul Terry, chief technology officer of Burnaby, British Columbia-based Cray Canada. In this interview, Terry explains that assertion and describes Cray's new Linux-based XD1 system, which will be priced competitively with other types of high-end Linux clusters.

Q&A: Cray Canada CTO answers IT pros' HPC questions (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) Is high-performance computing only used in scientific labs? In this interview, Cray Canada chief technology officer Paul Terry answers this question, offers advice on how to choose the right HPC system responds to questions from SearchEnterpriseLinux.com's readers.

Q&A: Linux clusters give HPC price-performance (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) High-performance computing (HPC) users are switching from supercomputers to Linux clusters, and enterprise IT shops are getting keen on that idea, too. In this interview, PathScale exec Alex Rublowsky explained why HPC on Linux makes sense. Also, find out which types of enterprise IT shops are checking out and what's ahead for HPC Linux clusters.

Filling in the gaps among Linux clusters (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) Is the price right for a Linux cluster? Would it meet all of your company's needs? Get the scoop in part two of this interview with Linux Networx executive Eric Pitcher.

Case study: 9i RAC is the ticket for StubHub (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) Online ticket broker StubHub has no time for downtime and apparently has no qualms about putting its bottom line in Linux's hands.

Article: NAS clustering beats 1GB barrier (SearchStorage.com) Clustering low-cost Linux servers together with a network file system saves significant costs over purpose-built NAS filers; that much is a no-brainer. Now, advocates of NAS clustering argue that the performance of these offerings matches or even outperforms traditional NAS appliances.

Case study: Windows flops in online retail project (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com) Nowadays, more and more Java-based retail apps are being deployed on Linux. So, when Datavantage had to choose a platform for its new Stored Value gift card transaction-processing solution, Windows wasn't the only option.

Article: NetApp to reshape its storage architecture (SearchStorage.com) NetApp's Storage Grids will parallel an important trend in the server world: the move away from large symmetric multi-processing (SMP) systems, and toward large server farms made up of commodity Linux servers. That trend is quite evident today in the technical computing space, where NetApp intends to find its first customers for the Storage Grids technology.

Home page: Linux Virtual Server Project The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system. The architecture of the server cluster is fully transparent to end users, and the users interact as if it were a single high-performance virtual server.

Home page: Ultra Monkey Ultra Monkey is a project to create load-balanced and highly available network services, such as a cluster of Web servers that appears as a single Web server to end users.

Home page: High-Availability Linux Project (Linux-ha.org) The basic goal of the High Availability Linux project is to provide a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux which promotes reliability, availability and serviceability through a community development effort.

White Paper: Introduction to clustering on IBM eServer OpenPower 710 (IBM) This article first introduces some general clustering concepts and software and then provides examples of how the OpenPower 710 can be used in the two most common types of clusters: high performance clusters and high availability clusters.

Home page: Kimberlite HA cluster project site The collaboration site for Kimberlite cluster development. Kimberlite is an open source project for high availability clustering on Linux. The page offers links to documentation and more information.

Article: Verari's blades look sharp (Sign On San Diego) Verari and other blade server makers believe the advantages of blades will usher in a major change in the way large corporations nationwide meet their computer needs.

Q&A: Beowulf founder: Virtualization hot on Linux clusters Virtualization is creating a buzz in the IT industry today, but that buzz fizzles when virtualization on Linux clusters is mentioned. That's a shame, says Beowulf Project co-founder Donald Becker, because clusters offer a no-clutter virtualization option.

White paper: What is CSM? (IBM) Find out more about Cluster Systems Management (CSM) software, which provides a distributed system management solution that allows a system administrator to set up and maintain a cluster of nodes that run the Linux operating system.

Home page: System Imager This is the open source project site for SystemImager, software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment for Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments.

Home page: Maui Scheduler The Maui Scheduler helps admins manage large-system resources. Maui was designed to batch schedule and launch MPI-based parallel jobs, and can also schedule and run your own custom message-passing jobs.

Home page: The Cluster Command and Control (C3) tool suite This is the project page for The Cluster Command and Control (C3) tool suite, which implements a number of command line based tools that have been shown to increase system manager scalability by reducing time and effort to operate and manage the cluster.

Tip: Distributed computing, clusters and high-availability solutions In this tip, clusters and servers expert Don Becker describes basic rules for making network boot servers more reliable -- like avoiding multicasts -- and explains the Mosix approach to cluster architecture. He also suggests ways to avoid data loss when consolidating servers.

Home page: Cluster infrastructure for Linux This project is developing a common infrastructure for Linux clustering by extending the Cluster Membership and Internode Communication Subsystems from HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware code base.

Resource: Cluster Project Page This page provides links to a number of Linux cluster development projects.

Home page: Open Cluster Group The Open Cluster Group is an informal group of people dedicated to making cluster-computing practical for high performance computing.

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